[CMake] how to replace text in generated files

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hi Alex,

In 2.0 this was sort of experimental feature used for install, so it was
not documented. It turned out to work just fine, so it can be used with
no problem. You just have to make sure not to use generators.

       Andy

Alexander Neundorf wrote:

>>Hi Alex, 
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>>What you can do is to write a cmake script that does what you want it 
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>>do. Then you call it during build stage using: 
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>>ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND(... 
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>>${CMAKE_COMMAND} -P ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/my_fancy_script.cmake 
>>...) 
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>>       Andy 
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>Works ! :-) 
>Using -DSOME_VAR:STRING="blah" I can feed the filenames into the extra 
>script files :-) 
>Did I mention that cmake rules ? 
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>Bye 
>Alex 
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>P.S. the -P option doesn't appear in the man-page 
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Andy Cedilnik
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